ὁρμίσκος
necklace, chain
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὁρμίσκος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 38:18 ὁρμίσκος And he said, What is the earnest that I shall give you? and she said, Your ring, and your bracelet, and the staff in your hand; and he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
- Genesis 38:25 ὁρμίσκος And as they were bringing her, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose these things are; and she said, See whose is this ring and bracelet and staff.
- Proverbs 25:11 ὁρμίσκος As a golden apple in a necklace of sardius, so is it to speak a wise word.
- Song of Solomon 1:10 ὁρμίσκος How are your cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, your neck as chains!
- Song of Solomon 7:2 ὁρμίσκος Your navel is as a turned bowl, not lacking liquor; your belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
About this word
About this word
ὁρμίσκος (hormískos), “necklace, chain,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
